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They Looked Alike
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Frank Griffin
Cast: C.W. Ritchie [Bill], Raymond McKee [Sam], Harry Lorraine [Rube], Babe Hardy (Oliver Hardy) [a pedestrian]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. Scenario by Epes W. Sargent (E.W. Sargent). / Released 5 January 1915; in a split-reel with The New Editor (1915). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Bill and Sam are two tramps and they look so much alike that they fool the Riverside cops completely. Rube, the champion sprinter of the force, is coaxed to chase Bill and not knowing that there are two, keeps after his victim while the tramps work relays and run him off his feet. This rouses the ire of his brother officers and they start out to avenge him. They run across Sam foraging and give chase. Sam runs to the shack where he left Bill and is relieved. They might have been running yet had not the owner of the shack locked the door. This enables the cops to capture Sam, and Bill is discovered in the shed. The owner of the place lends them a light wagon and the two tramps are forced to play horse and drag the weary policemen back to the station house, where they are made to run the gauntlet into the cells, to the delight of Rube.
Survival status: Prints exist in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 14 December 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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